xxii, 511 pages : 24 cm

"Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science, and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorizing, and reflective practices. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, contributions to this volume focus on the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences and explore the possibility of public participation in scientific discourse, drawing on research and practice in art, biology, critical theory, anthropology, and cultural studies."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword : Biological Feedback / Joseph Dumit -- Introduction / Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip -- I. Theory and Practice : Biology as Ideology -- 1. Interview with Richard Lewontin / Interview by Gwen D'Arcangelis, Beatriz da Costa, and Kavita Philip -- 2. Living the Eleventh Thesis / Richard Levins -- 3. Interview with Richard Levins : On Philosophy of Science / Interview by Abha Sur -- II. Life.science.art : Curating the Book of Life -- 4. Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA / Jacqueline Stevens -- 5. Soft Science : Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling / Rachel Mayeri -- 6. Observations on an Art of Growing Interest : Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology / Jens Hauser -- III. The Biolab and the Public -- 7. Outfi tting the Laboratory of the Symbolic : Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart / Claire Pentecost -- 8. The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- 9. Labs Shut Open : A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists / Oron Catts and Gary Cass -- IV. Race and the Genome -- 10. Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology / Troy Duster -- 11. Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol / Paul Vanouse -- 12. The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application / Fatimah Jackson and Sherie McDonald -- 13. In Contradiction Lies the Hope : Human Genome and Identity Politics / Abha Sur and Samir Sur -- V. Gendered Science -- 14. Common Knowledge and Political Love / subRosa -- 15. Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India / Kavita Philip -- 16. Genes, Genera, and Genres : The NatureCulture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation / Karen Cardozo and Banu Subramaniam -- 17. True Life Science Fiction : Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural / Gwyneth Jones -- VI. Expertise and Amateur Science -- 18. Uncommon Life / Eugene Thacker -- 19. AIDS Activists and People with AIDS : A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment / Mark Harrington -- 20. The Politics of Rationality : Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry / E. Gabriella Coleman -- 21. Reaching the Limit : When Art Becomes Science / Beatriz da Costa -- VII. Biosecurity and Bioethics -- 22. From Bioethics to Human Practices, or Assembling Contemporary Equipment / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- 23. How Do We Insure Security from Perceived Biological Threats? / Jonathan King -- 24. Bioparanoia and the Culture of Control / Critical Art Ensemble -- 25. Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, and Humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire / Gwen D'Arcangelis -- VIII. Interspecies Co-Production -- 26. Training in the Contact Zone : Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility / Donna J. Haraway -- 27. Playing with Rats / Kathy High -- 28. Animal Welfare in the Laboratory : A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal Interaction / Larry Carbone

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